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EASTING

Definition: EASTING

EASTING

Noun

1. The distance measured toward the east between two meridians drawn through the extremities of a course; distance of departure eastward made by a vessel.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "EASTING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1840. (references)



Specialty Definitions: EASTING

DomainDefinitions

Geography

Eastward(that is from left to right)reading of grid values on a map. Source: European Union. (references)

Military

Eastward (that is from left to right) reading of grid values on a map. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Crosswords: EASTING

English words defined with "EASTING": Meridional distance. (references)

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Commercial Usage: EASTING

DomainTitle

Books

  • Running Her Easting Down: A Documentary of the Development and History of the British Tea Clippers, Culminating With the Building of the Cutty Sark, (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Music

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: EASTING

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

73 battle easting

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73 easting

4

easting northing

4

easting false

4
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: EASTING

Language Translations for "EASTING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

lëvizje drejt lindjes, kurs drejt lindjes. (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏بإتجاه الشرق. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

курс към изток. (various references)

   

Danish

  

forandret østlængde. (various references)

   

French

  

en direction de l'est (eastbound), vers l'est (easterly, eastward). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

keleti irányú haladás, keleti irány. (various references)

   

Manx

  

shiar-linney, arraghey my hiar. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

eastingay.(various references)

   

Romanian

  

rutã esticã, cursã spre est. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

курс на ост. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

plovidba na istok. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

dirección del este. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

doğuya doğru yönelme. (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

рух на схід. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: EASTING

Derivations

Words beginning with "EASTING": eastings. (additional references)

Words ending with "EASTING": breasting, feasting, outfeasting, yeasting. (additional references)

Words containing "EASTING": beastings. (additional references)


Misspellings

"EASTING" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: easain, easeing, Eastan, Eastaugh, Eastend, eastings, Eastney, elastan, Estaing, Estang, esting. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "EASTING"

Words rhyming with "EASTING" (pronounced 'East"ing'): Abearing, Aboding, Agoing, Awanting, Away-going, Awning, Aworking, Baaing, Ballooning, Birding, Birthing, Bocking, Bolling, Bridgeing, Cannonering, Carking, Colling, Crefting, Deglazing, Derdoing, Dilluing, Dooring, Drearing, During, Elamping, Electro-engraving, Electro-etching, Electro-gilding, Emprising, Enchafing, Enerlasting, Eploring, Everduring, Everlasting, Everliving, Fairing, Falding, Fellow-feeling, firing, Flating, Fleaking, Fleming, flying, Foreholding, Gapesing, Ginging, Gloaming, grasping, Grinting, grooving, Guilding, Holing, Horning, Hosting, Ill-boding, Imbenching, Impleasing, Impriming, Incanting, Inconcerning, Inconcluding, Inconsisting, Incorresponding, Infausting, Intercoming, interworking, Inunderstanding, Lamping, Loring, Louping, Mandarining, Maying, Meaking, Miching, Misbecoming, Misfeeling, Misguiding, Mispleading, Misproceeding, Mistreading, Miting, Monking, morning, Muting, Newing, Noncomplying, Nonconcluding, Noncondensing, Nonconducting, Nonconforming, Nonimporting, Nonresisting, Nonsparing, Nooning, Northing, Occulting, Offing, Ounding, Outing, Outstanding, Overbearing, Overcarking, Overknowing, Overlashing, Overpraising, Overtrading, Phasing, Plaiding, Pontooning, Priesting, Randing, Rebiting, Redoubting, Reeding, Rinking, Ruching, Safe-keeping, Sarking, Sea-roving, Seining, Self-abasing, self-acting, Self-adjusting, Self-applying, Self-approving, self-asserting, Self-consuming, self-denying, Self-depending, Self-devouring, self-explaining, Self-healing, Self-imparting, Self-knowing, self-moving, Self-neglecting, Self-reproaching, Self-reproving, Shafting, Shamoying, Sheading, Sheeling, Shieling, Shoading, Shroving, Siling, Skylarking, Sleighing, Slicking, sliding, Slocking, Smithing, Snying, Speeching, Speking, Splining, Steading, Steening, Steining, Stenting, Still-closing, Strengthing, stroking, Strouding, Sweeting, Swording, Teaming, Throating, Thurling, Trething, Trysting, Tything, unassuming, unbecoming, Unbeing, unbelieving, Unbeseeming, unblushing, Unconcerning, underlying, Undesigning, undiscerning, undoing, undying, unerring, unfailing, unfeeling, unflinching, unmeaning, Unrecuring, unrelenting, Unseeming, Unsisting, unsparing, unthinking, Unweeting, Unweighing, unwilling, uprising, Waling, Westing, Wicking, Witing, Woning, Woulding, Yachting. (additional references)

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Anagrams: EASTING

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: eatings, ingates, ingesta, seating, teasing.

Words within the letters "a-e-g-i-n-s-t"

-1 letter: ageist, agents, easing, eating, gainst, giants, ingate, ingest, sating, signet, tenias, tineas, tinges, tisane.

-2 letters: aegis, agent, agist, angst, anise, antes, antis, entia, etnas, gains, gaits, gates, gents, getas, giant, gnats, inset, nates, neats, neist, nites, saint, satin, segni, sengi, senti, singe, stage, staig, stain, stane, stang, stein, sting, tains, tangs, tenia, tinea, tines, tinge, tings.

-3 letters: ages, agin, ains, aits, anes, anis, ante, anti, ants, ates, east, eats, egis, engs, etas, etna, gaen, gaes, gain, gait, gane, gast, gate, gats, gens, gent, gest, geta, gets, gien, gies, gins, gist, gits, gnat, nags, neat, nest, nets, nite, nits, sage, sain, sane, sang, sate, sati, seat, sent, seta, sign, sine, sing, site, snag, snit, stag, tags, tain, tang, tans, teas, tegs, tens, ties, tine, ting, tins.

-4 letters: age, ain, ais, ait, ane, ani, ant, ate, eat, eng, ens, eta, gae, gan, gas, gat, gen, get, gie, gin, git, ins, its, nae, nag, net, nit, sae, sag, sat, sea, seg, sei, sen, set, sin, sit, tae, tag, tan, tas, tea, teg, ten, tie, tin, tis.

-5 letters: ae, ag, ai, an, as, at, en, es, et, in, is, it, na, ne, si, ta, ti.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-g-i-n-s-t"
 

+1 letter: angriest, antigens, astringe, beatings, eastings, estating, feasting, gahnites, ganister, gantries, gelatins, genitals, gentians, giantess, granites, ingrates, mangiest, mintages, misagent, naggiest, rangiest, sauteing, seatings, sedating, steading, stealing, steaming, sweating, tangiest, tziganes, unitages, vintages, yeasting.

 

+2 letters: absenting, agentings, agentives, agentries, agonistes, alginates, anglesite, antigenes, arresting, assenting, asserting, astringed, astringes, athelings, attesting, basseting, beastings, breasting, caseating, casketing, demasting, desalting, designate, egyptians, emigrants, estraying, fastening, gainliest, galenites, gangliest, ganisters, gannister, gantlines, gauntries, gelatines, gelations, geminates, gestating, gestation, gnarliest, gnathites, gnattiest, gradients, grainiest, gratinees, grievants, hastening, indagates, ingathers, instigate, integrals, jangliest, legations, ligaments, magnesite, magnetics, magnetise, magnetism, mastering, misagents, miseating, naethings, navigates, negations, negatives, orangiest, paginates, recasting, repasting, reseating, reslating, restaging, restating, retasting, safetying, sensating, seriating, serrating, sheathing, signature, slangiest, snaggiest, staginess, steadings, steadying, stealings, stingaree, streaking, streaming, tangibles, tangliest, tasseling, teachings, teaseling, teasingly, trapesing, triangles, twangiest, umangites, unseating, vintagers, waterings.

 

+3 letters: abiogenist, absterging, alignments, amnestying, analgetics, anglesites, antilogies, appetising, aragonites, argentines, argentites, asperating, assignment, astringent, autogenies, autosexing, bassetting, besteading, breathings, carpetings, centigrams, chastening, clientages, denigrates, descanting, designated, designates, designator, desolating, destaining, disseating, earthlings, eglantines, enswathing, escalating, escheating, estimating, estivating, estranging, estreating, evangelist, exhausting, fastenings, galantines, gannisters, garnitures, gatherings, gelatinous, gemmations, generalist, germinates, gestations, giantesses, glutamines, granulites, guaranties, gyniatries, harvesting, hesitating, instigated, instigates, integrands, integrates, interstage, isoantigen, magnesites, magnetised, magnetises, magnetisms, magnetites, magnetizes, magnitudes, manganites, marginates, marketings, metalising, misseating, morganites, naughtiest, nauseating, negativism, negativist, negotiants, negotiates, nightmares, nightshade, originates, panegyrist, parentings, plastering, precasting, prepasting, pretasting, registrant, resaluting, resinating, resonating, restacking, restaffing, restamping, restarting, retailings, ringmaster, sauntering, scattering, separating, shattering, sheathings, signalment, signatures, slathering, smartening, smattering, spangliest, spattering, speciating, spectating, staggering, stammering, stampeding, starveling, steamering, stewarding, stingarees, straighten, streakings, streamings, supergiant, tangencies, tangerines, tasselling, teaselling, tetanising, timesaving, tragedians, transgenic, traversing, treasuring, vesicating, vigilantes, wadsetting.

 

+4 letters: abiogenists, abnegations, abridgments, advertising, aestivating, afforesting, alightments, allegations, ancestoring, angiotensin, antagonizes, anthologies, antiplagues, arrestingly, assignments, asterisking, astringency, astringents, brigantines, caretakings, cartelising, charmingest, coattesting, decussating, degustation, delegations, denegations, denigrators, derogations, desecrating, desiccating, designating, designation, designative, designators, designatory, despatching, detasseling, devastating, dignitaries, disentangle, elongations, emigrations, empathising, ensheathing, ergotamines, evangelists, everlasting, exsiccating, featherings, festinating, forecasting, foretasting, gadolinites, gallantries, gangsterish, gangsterism, garnierites, garnishment, gelatinizes, geminations, genealogist, generalists, generations, genialities, gentamicins, geobotanies, geobotanist, gestational, gesticulant, ghastliness, gigantesque, glauconites, gleizations, glutaminase, greasepaint, haughtiness, heartstring, iceboatings, impregnants, impregnates, inaugurates, ingratiates, insheathing, instigative, intangibles, integrators, interabangs, intergrades, intergrafts, invaginates, investigate, invigilates, invigorates, isoantigens, langoustine, lastingness, legislating, legislation, levigations, ligamentous, lightplanes, linecasting, magnetising, magnetizers, malignities, manifesting, martingales, mastheading, metagenesis, misaltering, miscreating, misrelating, misteaching, mistreating, mutagenesis, naughtiness, nearsighted, negativisms, negativists, negotiators, nightshades, nitrogenase, outfeasting, outspeaking, outswearing, overcasting, oversalting, overstating, overstaying, overtasking, pacesetting, pageantries, palletising, panegyrists, patternings, pedestaling, personating, plaistering, plasterings, postweaning, prestamping, pugnacities, quarterings, readjusting, rearresting, reasserting, reassorting, refastening, regimentals, regionalist, registrants, regulations, reinstating, relegations, remastering, resignation, restraining, ringmasters, ringstraked, scatterings, segregating, segregation, sergeanties, signalments, signatories, smatterings, spaghettini, speculating, splattering, springwater, squattering, staginesses, stagnancies, stalemating, starvelings, steelmaking, straightens, straitening, strangering, stranguries, supergiants, tapestrying, teargassing, telecasting, theologians, trailerings, transecting, transfigure, trapnesting, travestying, trespassing, trigeminals, typecasting, unfastening, ungainliest, unsheathing, unsteadying, vaginitides, vegetarians, vegetations, waitressing, waterskiing, weatherings.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: EASTING


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

45 41 53 54 49 4E 47

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

.    .-    ...    -    ..    -.    --.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000101 01000001 01010011 01010100 01001001 01001110 01000111

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#69 &#65 &#83 &#84 &#73 &#78 &#71

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0045 0041 0053 0054 0049 004E 0047

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

39355354434841

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Expressions: Internet
5. Translations: Modern
6. Derivations
7. Rhymes
8. Anagrams
9. Orthography
10. Bibliography


  

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